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Next to a lady wearing a turban, and a bald old man who blinked angrily just as Vronsky's moving glass reached him, he suddenly saw Anna's proud head, strikingly beautiful, and smiling in its frame of lace.
I was still attractive then, still had my good looks,' she went on, feeling that she wanted to see herself in a glass.
Yet even without looking in the glass she thought it might not be too late even now.
For instance, he maintains that the Zemstvos and Magistrates are quite unnecessary, and he won't have anything to do with them.''That is our Russian indifference,' said Vronsky, pouring water from an iced decanter into a very thin glass with a stem, 'not to realize the duties our rights impose on us, and therefore to deny those duties.'
A glass of fine champagne!'
It was not even a failure for him; as he himself said to Nevedovsky, champagne glass in hand, no better representative of the new course which the Nobility ought to follow could have been found.
'The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.'
Wearing an indoor jacket with a belt, morocco leather shoes, and with a pince-nez of blue glass on his nose, Lvov sat in an easy-chair reading a book lying on a lectern before him, and carefully held at a distance in his shapely hand a cigar half turned to ashes.
They drank a glass of vodka each and returned to their table.
Oblonsky took a glass, and exchanging a look with a bald, red-haired man with a moustache who sat at the other end of their table, smilingly nodded to him.
Levin followed Oblonsky's example and took the glass.
He drank a glass of champagne they offered him, and ordered another bottle.
This was more than Levin could stand; he resolutely snatched the bottle out of the man's hands and rushed out at the big glass door.
They too moved on, and heard the loud voice of a man who, with a glass in his hand, was making a speech to the Volunteers: 'To serve the Faith, humanity, and our brothers!' said the gentleman, raising his voice more and more.
Then, with a large gesture he indicated the north half of the horizon: the Sonneville workshops had not received two-thirds of their usual orders; only two of the three blast furnaces of the Marchiennes Forges were alight; finally, at the Gagebois glass works a strike was threatening, for there was talk of a reduction of wages.
The glass door was open; one could perceive the lobby of a landing, a sort of recess in which the father and the mother occupied a fourth bed, against which they had been obliged to install the cradle of the latest coiner, Estelle, aged scarcely three months.
But the lamp-cabin was glittering--a glass house, full of hooks in rows, holding hundreds of Davy lamps, examined and washed the night before, and lighted like candles in chapel.
But Chaval, after glancing at the table of counters in the receiver's little glass office, came back furious.
"A glass," ordered Maheu of a big fair girl, a neighbour's daughter who sometimes took charge of the place.
In a long, slow gulp, the miner emptied half his glass to sweep away the dust which filled his throat.
And for fear of giving way to the offer of a glass of hot coffee she pushed Lénore and Henri, and set out with them.
Besides, it must be understood that a collier needed a glass to wash away the dust.
Maheude was drinking her coffee in little sips, with her hands round the glass to warm them, when Father Bonnemort came down.
"You'll have a glass with me?" she said.
What! she had money, too!"No, no," he said, "I've had a glass, it's all right."
Why, was he afraid of a glass?
To console her they vainly offered a glass of hot coffee.
A little glass of sweet, won't you?"
But the former, a good lad though careless of everything but his own pleasure, was quickly appeased by the friendly offer of a glass, and soon yielded to the superiority of the new-comer.
"Give me a glass, Madame Rasseneur.
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